NT4 can't access share name length over 12....

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Mon May 7 20:24:45 GMT 2001


On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:35:46AM -0700, Gerald Carter wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2001, vuleky wrote:
> 
> > I installed Samba 2.0.7 on my FreeBSD 4.1 box, it worked very fine for
> > a long time. But I found my NT server couldn't access the share which
> > exported by Samba and length was 13. I added a shared folder on an NT
> > server, and accessed it from another NT server, it worked correctly.
> 
> It is due to lack of complete UNICODE support in Samba IIRC.
> 
Until this happens use <= 12 char long share names.

After unicode support is added in, what will the new limit be? 16? 32? 64? 128?
256?

Mike




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